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This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a social phenomenon that consists of a set of interpretations and social reactions. The interactionist perspective focuses on issues such as how people typify one another, how they relate to one another based on these typifications, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps student understanding of the sociology of deviance, and also of social processes.
Contents
*Indicates new article to this edition. Preface. General Introduction. I. THE SOCIAL DEVIANT. 1. The Process of Social Typing. Howard S. Becker, Outsiders.David F. Luckenbill and Joel Best, Careers in Deviance.Karolynn Siegel, Howard Lane, and Ilan H. Meyer, Active Responses to Labeling.2. The Cultural Context. Marja Holmila, Gendered Rules on Alcohol Use.Craig Reinarmann and Ceres Duskin, The Culture's Drug Addict Imagery.Jane R. Mercer, Labeling the Mentally Retarded.3. Accommodation to Deviance. *Kathleen J. Ferraro and John M. Johnson, How Women Experience Battering.Michael Lynch, Accommodation to Madness.Joan K. Jackson, The Adjustment of the Family to Alcoholism.4. The Role of Third Parties. Earl Rubington, The Enforcement of College Alcohol Policy.Edwin M. Lemert, Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion.Erving Goffman, The Moral Career of Their Theories. William B. Waegel, Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work.Kathryn J. Fox, Control Agents and the Creation of Deviant Types.*Donileen R. Loseke and Spencer E. Cahill, Experts on Battered Women.6. Organizational Processing of Deviants. Christine Bowditch, Getting Rid of Troublemakers in High School.Lisa Frohmann, Sexual Assault.James A. Holstein, Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings.7. The Effects of Contact with Control Agents. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks.Richard D. Schwartz and Jerome H. Skolnick, Legal Stigma.Nancy J. Herman and Charlene E. Miall, Stigma and the Ex-psychiatric Patient.III. RELATIONS AMONG DEVIANTS. 8. The Social Organization of Deviants. Joel Best and David F. Luckenbill, Types of Relationships.John D'Emilio, Capitalism and the Gay Subculture.Nancy J. Herman, 'Mixed Nutters,' 'Looney Tuners,' and 'Daffy Ducks.'9. Getting into Deviant Groups. Martin S. Weinberg, Becoming a Nudist.Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Getting into Gangs.Sharon Abbott, Getting into Porn.10. Learning the Norms. Martin S. Weinberg, The Nudist Management of Respectability.Richard Tewksbury, Cruising for Sex in Public Places.*Liahna Gordon, Lesbians' Resistance to Culturally-Defined Attractiveness.11. Social Diversity. Charles E. Faupel, A Typology of Heroin Addicts.Paul C. Higgins, Outsiders in a Hearing World.Stephen E. Lankenau, Diversity in Panhandling.IV. DEVIANT IDENTITY. 12. Acquiring a Deviant Identity. Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. Williams, and Douglas W. Pryor, Becoming Bisexual.Clinton R. Sanders, Getting a Tattoo.*Penelope A. McLorg and Diane E. Taub, Anorexia, Bulimia, and Developing a Deviant Identity.13. Managing A Deviant Identity. Michael Petrunik and Clifford D. Shearing, Stutterers' Practices.*Carol Rambo Ronai and Rabecca Cross, Stripteasers Management of their Deviant Identity.James G. Thomson, Joseph A. Marolla, and David G. Bromley, Priests and Pedophilia.14. Transforming Deviant Identity. Harrison M. Trice and Paul Michael Roman, Delabeling, Relabeling, and Alcoholics Anonymous.J. David Brown, The Professional Ex-.Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. Williams, and Bo Laurent, Medicalizing and Demedicalizing Hermaphroditism.
